Well, mostly it seems to be on the throughput. I haven't really measured for metadata improvements yet. Of note, is that NFS is now working, but it appears to be EXTREMELY slow. I was only able to manage about 1-2MB/s Justice London E-mail: jlondon at lawinfo.com -----Original Message----- From: anand.avati at gmail.com [mailto:anand.avati at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Anand Avati Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:02 PM To: Justice London Cc: gluster-users; Harshavardhana Subject: Re: Gluster (2.0.1 -> git) with fuse 2.8 crashes NFS > The 2.0.3 release of gluster appears so far to have fixed the crash issue I > was experiencing. What was the specific patch that fixed for it I was > wondering? It was http://patches.gluster.com/patch/664/. A less ugly fix is lined up for 2.1 > Great job either way! It appears that with fuse 2.8 and newer kernels that > gluster absolutely flies. With a replication environment between two crummy > testbed machines it's probably about twice as fast as 2.7.4 based fuse! Just curious, are the observed performance improvements in terms of IO throughput or metadata latency? Avati Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.8/2224 - Release Date: 07/08/09 05:53:00